Saint of the day

The Roman Catholic Church observes January 28 as the day of St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), by universal consent the preeminent spokesman of the Catholic tradition of reason and of divine revelation.

Beliefnet.com says this of Aquinas:

His greatest contribution to the Catholic Church is his writings. The unity, harmony and continuity of faith and reason, of revealed and natural human knowledge, pervades his writings. One might expect Thomas, as a man of the gospel, to be an ardent defender of revealed truth. But he was broad enough, deep enough, to see the whole natural order as coming from God the Creator, and to see reason as a divine gift to be highly cherished.

I don’t usually extol the virtues of saints on this blog, but as we are approaching the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth on Feb. 12, I was thinking that perhaps Aquinas could have found a way to reconcile the evolutionists and the theists. I am perhaps being to free in paraphrasing Aquinas to say that he believed that if your faith could be thrown into doubt by scientific discovery then perhaps there was something seriously wrong with your religion.